Several servicemen relax by playing pool at their base. One later visits a prostitute and contracts syphilis. As a result of his unfortunate experience, there is an opportunity for sexual health information about syphilis, how it is spread and how its spread can be prevented.
Commandité par une église, le film mettait en scène des personnes faisant une série d'actes criminels à la suite de la consommation de cannabis, actes allant du délit de fuite au meurtre, à la tentative de viol et au basculement dans la folie.
Une lycéenne se laisse entraîner par une bande de fumeurs de marijuana. Un reporter va tenter d’infiltrer le gang des jeunes drogués
dans l’espoir de la sauver et alerter la population sur le terrible danger qui guette la jeunesse américaine…
Une jeune reine de beauté se rend à New York pour poursuivre sa carrière de mannequin, mais contracte la syphilis après avoir été trompée dans une rencontre sexuelle. Elle est tiraillée entre la perspective d'une thérapie lente, intensive mais éprouvée et un prétendu remède miracle.
Burma se rend à une fête avec son petit-ami. Elle y fume pour la première fois de la marijuana.
C’est le début de sa chute dans la spirale infernale de la toxicomanie.
Small town girl Jane Bradford falls for Nick, a guy from the big city who offers her the opportunity to get away from her small town life. He also offers her "headache powder", she not knowing that it's cocaine and that Nick is a drug pusher. By the time they get to the city, she's hooked on her new medicine. Jane's brother, Eddie, goes to the city to look for his sister, who has not kept in touch with her family. Eddie gets a job as a carhop at a drive-in and is befriended by a drive-in's waitress named Fanny. Fanny is one of Nick's customers, and Fanny soon gets Eddie hooked on the headache powder. Due to this vice, Eddie and Fanny's life soon goes downhill. They're both fired from their jobs and are unable to find other work in their drugged out state. On the periphery of both Eddie and Jane's life is Dorothy Farley, a customer at the drive-in. Dorothy, dating Dan, comes from a wealthy family and she throws her money around easily. She's willing to assist financially those in need.
Home to just 12% of the world's population, Sub-Saharan Africa is home to over 60% of all people living with HIV. Birchall journeys to Eastern Africa to investigate the true horror of living in countries beneath the poverty line, we realize the one thing that we share despite our many differences is the fact that we are all human. As such, our role is clear: to help each other. This is the story of a continent in disarray; how a storm of a different kind is affecting our world. This is Africa.
The documentary begins with the history of pandemics. Following this Dr. Tom Jefferson an (epidemiologist) describes how pandemics occur. After this is describe and compared with other pandemics alerts like the hong kong flu and the 1976 swine flu outbreak. The documentary follows how the political interest, pharmaceutical industry and the WHO benefit from peoples fears.